Haworth Tompkins

Haworth Tompkins

Architecture and Planning

We are a Stirling Prize-winning architectural studio with an international reputation for intelligent, purposeful design

About us

Haworth Tompkins was formed in 1991 by architects Graham Haworth and Steve Tompkins. Our London-based studio has designed buildings in the UK and elsewhere for clients across the public, private and subsidised sectors including schools, galleries, theatres, concert halls, housing, offices, shops and factories. Our buildings are influenced by the specific chemistry of individual places and cultural situations. We put enormous effort into understanding a building's context and the needs of its users, a process which often yields original or unconventional solutions. What they have in common is an approach rather than a stylistic signature. Professionalism and sustainability in the widest sense underpins our creative output. The combination of a relatively small, close-knit team and a carefully limited number of projects in development at any one time enables us to offer an exceptional level of service to our clients. Our work has won over 100 design awards including the 2014 Stirling Prize for the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @haworthtompkins

Industry
Architecture and Planning
Company size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
London
Type
Privately Held
Founded
1991
Specialties
Architecture, Housing Design, Theatre Design, Master planning, and Urban planning

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Updates

  • Haworth Tompkins is currently looking for an experienced BIM Coordinator with technological proficiency and good communication skills to join our BIM team and work on a range of medium to large scale projects in the residential, cultural, masterplanning, higher education and industrial sectors.   The successful candidate will work closely with our project teams in creating, developing and maintaining Revit models and BIM documentation. Our staff have a good level of Revit proficiency, but we continuously seek to improve our processes, standards and resources to foster efficiency. For more information and to apply - https://lnkd.in/gSB-5N6

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  • HT Director Lucy Picardo is joining the NLA Expert Panel on Culture 2025 to investigate how the rich and unique culture and character of the capital can be maintained, celebrated and enhanced. https://lnkd.in/gagHr3h Lucy has considerable experience in the performing arts and cultural sectors including the refurbishment of the Grade I listed Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the restoration and renewal of the Grade II* Chichester Festival Theatre. She is currently leading on the redevelopment of Theatr Clwyd, the extension of the Old Vic Theatre in Waterloo, the redevelopment of Grade I listed St George’s Guildhall, King’s Lynn, the Hexagon Theatre Studio in Reading, a masterplan for the London Museum Docklands and the redevelopment of Grade I listed De La Warr Pavilion.    Collated with thought leaders from across the industry, each of the 15 NLA expert panels will address the critical challenges facing London and champion bold ideas and initiatives to future-proof our industry and help drive London towards equity, sustainability and prosperity. #HaworthTompkins #NLACulture #ExpertPanel #Culture #London #Sustainability #Equity

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  • 2024 was a busy year at HT and as we settle into 2025, we have been reflecting on all that was achieved through the collective efforts of our team, clients and collaborators. We celebrated the completion and launch of The Warburg Institute, Lambeth Archives in Brixton, 67 affordable new homes for local people at Wood Street in Waltham Forest and the first phase of Pembroke Mill Lane in Cambridge. Our projects won another batch of awards including a RIBA London Award for Fish Island Village, a high commendation for Pembroke Mill Lane Phase 1 at the Wood awards, Industria won a NLA Workplace award and Commercial project of the year at The London Construction Awards and National Theatre – NT Future won the Religion & Culture category at the 2024 Architecture Today, buildings that stand the test of time awards. We were also named as one of 6 inaugural AJ100 Champions for our continued commitment to sustainability and ‘all-round excellence’. We continue to win new commissions across all our major sectors in the UK and across Europe including theatres in Stockholm and Vienna, masterplan visions at York Central, St Botolph’s quarter in Colchester and the London Museum Docklands, new buildings at Swindon Science + Innovation park and new neighbourhoods - Holloway Park in Islington and Dagenham Green Phase 2 for Peabody, we also won the Hackney New Homes Programme Design Competition which will deliver much needed council housing. Planning permission was received for several projects - St George’s Guildhall, King’s Lynn, Bromley-by-Bow Industrial Park, Birmingham Smithfield and Hexagon studio theatre in Reading. Several projects continue to make progress on site - A.R.T in Harvard, Wembley North East Lands, the Court Theatre in New Zealand, ECU City Campus in Perth Australia, Theatr Clwyd, our first Passivhaus project Greenhill Centre in Newham, Pier Road in Bexley, The Old Vic Annex, TEG Olympia, Canning Town Old Library & Sentralbadet in Bergen. High points for the studio include launching our first Level 6 & Level 7 apprenticeship scheme and welcoming our first two apprentices to HT. We continued to strengthen our commitment to embedding regenerative design principles across the practice with the appointment of a new sustainability designer and continued our support of the Architects Declare movement and became an inaugural sponsor of ACAN. As a studio we celebrated a series of significant promotions from both our architectural and studio support teams rewarding the valuable contribution they have made and recognising their leading roles within the studio, work on key projects, business development and practice wide initiatives. Other highlights include Director Lucy Picardo being appointed to join the NLA Expert Panel on Culture and Associate Director Ken Okonkwo being selected as Town Architect for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham by the Mayor of London. https://lnkd.in/ej9e4Q_Y

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  • ATG Entertainment is building a new venue in Vienna! The theatre construction, in a strategic alliance with the City of Vienna and Wien Holding, is intended to be completed by 2027 and will provide new cultural and economic impetus in the performing arts scene within Austria. With 1,800 seats, this is the largest privately financed theatre project of the past 100 years and will not only be one of the most important venues in Austria, but will also set new standards in international theatre architecture. It uniquely combines private-sector experience and cultural commitment with the highest sustainability standards, creating a contemporary entertainment hotspot in Vienna's tradition-steeped Prater district. Read More here - https://lnkd.in/ef9dxXi3 Visualisation: Haworth Tompkins + DIETRICH UNTERTRIFALLER

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    Details at the Warburg Institute. The Warburg Renaissance project honours both architect Charles Holden and founder Aby Warburg, while opening its unique contents up to new audiences. A key challenge was balancing modernisation with the preservation of the Institute's distinctive character and atmosphere. Fluted timber columns, woodblock and terrazzo floors and glazed screens typical of Holden’s style were retained wherever possible and continued through the details and finishes of the new interiors. Library stacks were reoriented to their original position, improving natural light and increasing capacity for 20 years future growth, and facilitated full reinstatement of Warburg’s unique cataloguing system. Warburg’s academic philosophy and approach were referenced throughout. The new lecture theatre features a sculptural ellipse echoing the Hamburg roof light. This organic shape is set within a regular grid of fair faced concrete beams and columns referencing the expressed structure present in many of Holden’s other projects. 01. Ellipse detail_Hinrich Reemtsma Auditorium. Photo ©Fred Howarth 02. The-Zettelkästen-Warburg-Institute. Photo ©Matt Crossick. Credit - The Warburg Institute, University of London Institute 03. Reception desk detail – Terrazzo & Fluted Timber. Photo ©Fred Howarth 04. New Gallery - Warburg Institute. Photograph ©Hufton + Crow Nick Hufton 05. Mythical nine muses sculpture restored and reinstalled. Photograph ©Fred Howarth 06. View of library stacks at the Warburg Institute. ©Photograph ©Fred Howarth 07. New courtyard brick detail. Photograph ©Hufton + Crow Nick Hufton The Warburg Institute, University of London, Quinn London Ltd, Artelia, Price & Myers, Skelly & Couch, Gillieron Scott Acoustic Design, B Sussed, The Fire Surgery, Alan Baxter Ltd. #HaworthTompkins #WarburgRenaissance #Renovation #Restoration #CulturalHeritage #HistoricPreservation #LondonArchitecture #Details

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    The ECU City campus reached a major milestone last week, with the campus officially reaching its full structural height. The ‘topping out’ milestone marks major progress on one of Perth’s most significant developments, with internal fit-out and finishing works continuing throughout 2025 ahead of the campus opening in 2026. ECU City will feature state-of-the-art learning, engagement and performance spaces giving students and staff access to learn, teach, create and perform in world-class spaces. The new home for WAAPA includes a Playhouse Theatre, Recital Hall, Flex Theatre, Jazz and Contemporary Venue, Aboriginal Performance venue, and Dance Theatre, along with a range of teaching spaces and rehearsal venues, workshop areas and dressing rooms. Haworth Tompkins is working with Australian architects Lyons, Perth-based Silver Thomas Hanley, theatre consultants Charcoalblue, acoustics designers Marshall Day Acoustics, Head Contractor Multiplex and engineers Stantec. ECU City is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people. Video courtesy of ECU #HaworthTompkins #ECUCity #ECU #EdithCowanUniversity #ToppingOut #Milestone #SiteProgress #performance #theatre #design #architecture

  • Brilliant vision + design team - really excited to be working with Hadley Property Group on this landmark site!

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    We are pleased to announce the completion of our acquisition of the former GSK House in Brentford, a significant milestone in our vision for a sustainable, mixed-use neighbourhood. Having worked closely with the London Borough of Hounslow for over a year, we are preparing a planning application for submission in the second half of 2025. The proposed development will include a diverse range of new homes, commercial spaces and essential community amenities, alongside enhanced access to the adjacent park and river – areas that have been underused for over 20 years. Our design partners, Haworth TompkinsStudio Egret West, dRMM, Buro Happold, Metropolitan Workshop LLP, Walsh - Structural, Civil & Geotechnical Engineers, Turley and McGregor Coxall, are already developing a masterplan focused on long-term value, sustainability and inclusivity for the local community and future residents. Andy Portlock, Hadley CEO, said: “The acquisition of 980 Great West Road is a landmark opportunity for Hadley, Brentford, and the Borough of Hounslow. For many years, the site has been a key marker for those travelling in and out of West London, yet it hasn’t connected with the local community. Reimagining it is a responsibility we take very seriously. We are committed to delivering on our sustainability pledges and our vision to deliver genuine community-led regeneration across London. It’s an exciting time to embark on a project of this scale. The recent alignment of new homes strategy between local, city-wide, and national government provides a rare opportunity for a collaborative design and planning process which can help provide the affordable homes that London needs, at a critical time for the city.” We look forward to sharing the emerging masterplan in early 2025. Image credit: Photoview.co.uk

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  • On site at The Court Theatre! HT Director Roger Watts was recently on site at the Court Theatre in New Zealand for the first time since 2016 when the site was still empty and bare. Haworth Tompkins has been involved in the project since 2013 after Roger fortuitously met members of The Court at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre. During the recent visit Roger met Matthew Webby of Athfield Architects Ltd, the local lead architect on the project, in person for the first time after working together for five years via online communication. Very few projects of the complexity and magnitude of The Court Theatre rebuild are designed without in-person collaboration. However, the use of technology following the Covid-19 pandemic has been of benefit to this project, with project members able to collaborate closely via video meetings held globally. Roger will return to site for the theatre’s grand opening in May 2025. https://lnkd.in/eWY83Fd8 Christchurch City Council, Athfield Architects Ltd, Charcoalblue, Hawkins, KOBE CONSTRUCTION 📸 Christchurch City Council #HaworthTompkins #CourtTheatreNZ #Architecture #TheatreDesign #TimberConstruction #Sustainability #AthfieldArchitects 

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  • Industria Barking has won the Workplace category at the 2024 NLA Awards. The judges praised the project for its bold commitment to blending industrial uses with workplaces and community spaces. The project was designed in collaboration with Ashton Smith Associates Ltd for client Be First Regeneration Limited and represents an innovative and ambitious approach to modern industrial design that densifies and diversifies workspace in a move away from the traditional typology of single-storey, low density ‘sheds’. https://lnkd.in/er3f2uRw Be First Regeneration Limited, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Ashton Smith Associates Ltd, McLaren Construction Group, FulkersBaileyRussell | Certified B Corp, Pinnacle Consulting Engineers Ltd, MBA Consulting Engineers Ltd, Landscape Projects, Steer, Astute Fire, DNCO. 📸 Fred Howarth #HaworthTompkins, #Industria #Barking, #BeFirst #IndustrialDesign, #workplace #urban #multistory #innovation, #NLAAwards

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  • Outstanding projects go beyond design—demostrating the meaningful impact they have on people's lives. It is fantastic to see the National Theatre – NT Future win the Religion & Culture category at the 2024 Architecture Today, Buildings that stand the test of time awards. The judges commented “In the 50 years since it was built the National Theatre has had to evolve to reflect the changing expectations of theatre and audiences and the evolution of the South Bank. Haworth Tompkins’ intelligent and sensitive interventions have been pulled off with aplomb and will set the stage for the next 50 years.” The Architecture Today Awards recognises projects that demonstrate a strong track record for delivering on their environmental, functional, community and cultural ambitions, awarding architectural excellence, longevity, and a commitment to community, sustainability, and innovation. https://lnkd.in/d7nuZ5iJ #HaworthTompkins #ATAwards #Buildingsthatstandthetestoftime #ArchitectureAward #Culture #Heritage #community #NationalTheatre #NTFuture #Southbank 📸 Philip Vile

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